LightDM
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LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It can use various front-ends to draw the user interface, also called Greeters. It also supports Wayland.
Key facts
- Software.name
- LightDM
- Software.screenshot
- ElementaryOS Pantheon Greeter 5.0 screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- LightDM in elementaryOS with its default "Pantheon Greeter 5.0" front-end
- Software.author
- Robert Ancell
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux, OpenIndiana
- Software.size
- 1 MB
- Software.language
- >50 languages
- Software.genre
- X display manager
- Software.license
- GPL-3.0-or-later
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Source code
The core LightDM project does not provide any greeter with it; you should install a greeter appropriate to your system. Popular greeter projects are: System provided configuration should be stored in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ . System administrators can override this configuration by adding files to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf . Files are read in the above order and combined together to make the LightDM configuration. For example, if a sysadmin wanted to override the system configured default session (provided in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d ) they should make a file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-myconfig.conf with the following: Stack Overflow and Ask Ubuntu are good sites for frequently asked questions.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 3,952 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- github.com/canonical/lightdm
- Image
- Lightdm-screenshot.jpg
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- Commons category
- LightDM
- software version identifier
- 1.32.0
- inception
- 2010-09-10
- source code repository URL
- github.com/ubuntu/lightdm
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- Features
- Available greeters
- See also
- References
- External links
LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It can use various front-ends to draw the user interface, also called Greeters. It also supports Wayland.
LightDM is the default display manager for Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Mythbuntu since the 11.10 release, for Lubuntu since the 12.04 release until 16.10, for Kubuntu beginning with 12.10 until 15.04 for Linux Mint and Antergos.